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    It is a bit rough around the edges. It's interesting how SE was on a weird bent in the late 00s for deconstructing the series crystal motif. I mean the FNC can pretty much be summarized as "Crystals choose Light Warriors, but the Crystals are all not-so-secretly jerks". 4HoL does something similar but in its case, "Crystals choose Light Warriors, but their choices are jerks" so it's kind of interesting from that point of view.
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    4HoL does a weird thing where levels matter a lot in the early game, but after a certain story beat, they will actually start scaling with you. At that point, how many levels of your job, and your gear become more important. The unique aspect of 4HoL's Job system is the opposite of BD and most job systems SE does where the classes are hardly dominating without a support class or two to work things out. Black Mage may be the one exception and once you gain the Lux spell, White Mage does become a permanent fixture of the team. Of anything, it's the melee focused classes that are really nerfed in this game. There is no Warrior class for instance, and the few good melee classes unlock near the end of the game and are usually hiding behind superbosses.
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    I have only played the demo of the original, so I can't say for sure. 4HoL has a very interesting plot that is simply hampered by some awkward game design. Especially since it pulls a bit of an FFXI and has a gameplay format designed heavily around cooperation among party dynamics. You can tell they were heavily aping the original FFIII in that regard.
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    That was indeed rather funny. Would make sense to me as well.

    Apparently the producer for the BD franchise has apologized for how lackluster Second was. It's also part of the reason why BD2 is set in an original world with a whole new cast.
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    I know BD allowed you to fight the big bads from 4 Heroes of Light. That game is so weird, like I want to talk about it but I don't think anyone but Del played the game on this forum. It's so weird cause its brilliant and stupid at the same time. I imagine from what little I know of BD's plot that it seems like the team probably re-used a few ideas from 4HoL.
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    It is for you, did you have something else in mind that I actually own?
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    I imagine Bravely Default.
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    What's that look for?
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    The only one that bothers me is the idea of the Zora controls being worse, since I don't remember them being that great in the original anyway. The boss fight change is fine because most of the bosses were pretty easy if memory serves me correctly.

    Now that I'm done with RS3, I'm not really sure what I'm going to play next. Maybe I'll go do the game's suggested in my Back Log thread I ended up ignoring.
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    Yeah, I need to get back to my playthrough of Master Quest. I've heard mixed things about the Majora's Mask version on 3DS. I know they made one boss way more challenging and forced you to use the Deku Scrub in the fight, but I've also heard they kind of screwed up the Zora swimming controls as well.
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Part of your world

by Fynn on 06-06-2017 at 04:37 PM
So there's this nagging issue I've had for quite some time now. It's a pretty abstract issue but one I think is pretty interesting and perhaps even important to share nonetheless. For many reasons, it has only become more pronounced recently.

As some of you may know, I want to be a writer. I try to do as much writing as I can. I even do writing for a living, though as an SEO copywriter, it's not exactly that I have an opportunity to spread my creative wings as part of what keeps giving

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On FFVII (part of my Fmarathon rant)

by Fynn on 11-23-2016 at 11:16 AM
Decided this is worthy of being a blog-post, since it turned out to be a much bigger rant than I expected and I'm not sure the marathon's audience is really there for that kind of stuff

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Welp, got all the way to the Shinra building. I was thinking of barging in for once, but it just feels so stupid. I just had to take the stairs again. What sane person would just charge in, guns blazing, when there's a clearly safer, less-disruptive option?

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Frustrations of the writerly sort

by Fynn on 07-01-2016 at 11:13 AM
So there's this thing I've been struggling for quite some time. I don't want to call it a "writer's block" because it kind of seems like an excuse for being lazy. And it usually doesn't last long. This is something that's been eating at me for a long time.

I just kinda feel that I can't write anymore.

I mean, I still write articles for the site sometimes and I write other texts at my work, but it seems like, creatively, I've dried up. I'll come up with ideas

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On story expectations

by Fynn on 03-30-2016 at 11:57 AM
So this is kind of a general discussion, but the general rant I have is based on three popular 3DS RPGs: Bravely Default, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Shin Megami Tensei IV. Sorry if this is chaotic, as I'm just writing this as it comes into my mind. Also, spoilers from the three games abound.

All of those games were very well received, though for different reasons. SMT is kind of here to serve as a neutral ground, as the evaluation of its story is pretty divided, whereas the consensus

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Character Appreciation: Junpei Iori

by Fynn on 03-30-2016 at 10:37 AM
This is in no way an idea I stole from Pumpkin, no siree.


Junpei Iori is a character from the Persona franchise. He first appears in Persona 3 and all of its subsequent releases as a playable party member. He becomes a social link character as well in the female path of Persona 3 Portable, though he isn't date-able. He is also playable in

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